Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Field- and temperature-dependent quantum tunnelling of the magnetisation in a large barrier single-molecule magnet

  • You-Song Ding,
  • Ke-Xin Yu,
  • Daniel Reta,
  • Fabrizio Ortu,
  • Richard E. P. Winpenny,
  • Yan-Zhen Zheng,
  • Nicholas F. Chilton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05587-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Understanding quantum tunnelling of the magnetisation in single-molecule magnets is crucial for their potential application in information storage. Here the authors conduct a field- and temperature-dependent study of the magnetisation dynamics of a dysprosium-based SMM, finding four distinct relaxation processes that dominate in different regimes.